Ehretia

Ehretia is a genus of flowering plants in the borage family, Boraginaceae. It contains about 50 species.[2] The generic name honors German botanical illustrator Georg Dionysius Ehret (1708–1770).[3]

Ehretia
Ehretia acuminata
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Clade: Asterids
Order: Boraginales
Family: Boraginaceae
Subfamily: Ehretioideae
Genus: Ehretia
P.Browne
Type species
Ehretia tinifolia
Species

See text

Synonyms

Gaza Terán & Berland.
Traxilum Raf.[1]

Selected species

Fossil record

†Ehretia europaea fossil seeds of the Chattian stage, Oligocene, are known from the Oberleichtersbach Formation in the Rhön Mountains, cental Germany.[4] Endocarp fossils have been described from the Late Miocene locality of Pont-de-Gail in France and from the southern border of the Po Plain in northern Italy in two sites dated to the Zanclean and in three sites of supposed Zanclean age[5]

Formerly placed here
  • Carmona retusa (Vahl) Masam. (as E. microphylla Lam.)[6]

Taxonomy references
  • "Index Nominum Genericorum -- Ehretia". International Code of Botanical Nomenclature. Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Museum of Natural History. Retrieved 2009-03-31.
  • UniProt. "Ehretia". Retrieved 2009-03-31.
  • "Ehretia". Australian Plant Name Index (APNI), IBIS database. Centre for Plant Biodiversity Research, Australian Government.
  • "Ehretia P.Browne". African flowering plants database. Pretoria: South African National Biodiversity Institute, the Conservatoire et Jardin botaniques de la Ville de Genève and Tela Botanica. Retrieved 2009-03-31.
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References
  1. "Genus: Ehretia P. Browne". Germplasm Resources Information Network. United States Department of Agriculture. 2006-04-02. Archived from the original on 2011-06-05. Retrieved 2010-08-21.
  2. "2. Ehretia". Flora of China. 16: 333. Retrieved 2009-03-31.
  3. Bennett, Masha (2003). Pulmonarias and the Borage Family. Timber Press. ISBN 978-0-88192-589-0.
  4. The floral change in the tertiary of the Rhön mountains (Germany) by Dieter Hans Mai - Acta Paleobotanica 47(1): 135-143, 2007.
  5. Pliocene and Early Pleistocene carpological records of terrestrial plants from the southern border of the Po Plain (northern Italy) by Edoardo Martinetto, Giovanni Monegato, Andrea Irace and Elena Vassio - Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology 218(1) November 2014 by DOI: 10.1016/j.revpalbo.2014.10.007
  6. "GRIN Species Records of Ehretia". Germplasm Resources Information Network. United States Department of Agriculture. Archived from the original on 2000-11-19. Retrieved 2010-08-21.
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